Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professor turned in the doorway, shrugging his shoulders into his topcoat. He smiled at the three section men gathered around the long table with the neat foot-high piles of blue books. His hand was on the knob as he said: "Be kind, gentlemen, but be, ha --ha, not too kind...
...door closed behind him and the section men exchanged relieved glances...
...Well, where shall we begin?" said the section man who had won his key at Arkansas and could be seen every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in the Hemenway calisthenics class...
Before the other two could intervene, the sallow section man with the tired moustache, who was a surreptitious poet, had pushed over all the piles and was mixing them together...
...seeing members of the History Department, in costume, reenacting the glorious deeds of the past. Consider, for instance, the possibilities of staging the Defenestration of Prague from Memorial Hall's most lofty window with some Ph.D. candidate in the featured role. Or the History 3 section men might, with the aid of the Department of Zoology and the Military Science staff, put on a Roman holiday in the Stadium with the chairman of the Department occupying the imperial loge in Section 18, the Sargent and Radcliffe girls cast as Vestal Virgins in Section 23, and the members of the course...